The Zan Man,
Zander, our Mr. Z.
The busiest 4 year old
You’ll ever see.
In constant motion
Day in and day out.
No stone left unturned
Every toy strewn about.
Learning to swim,
He uses the float,
Or just rides around
In the rubber boat.
On a bicycle he’s speedy
Legs pumping fast
But in the race with his sisters
He’s usually last
He disappears in an instant
And when we hear
The silence of his absence
The search moves to high gear.
Something’s caught his attention
After all, there’s a lot to see
At Grandma and Grandpa’s
The garden, grapes, the apple trees.
Impatient for presents
He inventories the stash
“Open presents now?”
He continually asks.
Finally ripping and tossing paper
As fast as he can be
He holds each gift up
For us all to see.
He momentarily pauses
Thinking of a wish to make
Before he blows out the candles
And dives into the cake.
In a quiet evening moment
On the grass they lay
With Grandpa looking upwards
At the stars far away.
The party is over
Now its time to go
Another years's gone by
Oh, how fast they grow!
Wow, that's a wonderful ode to Zander! He sounds a lot like my grandson, Zachary, who turned 3 in April. Your poem was so upbeat and captured a happy, active 4 year old's personality! I had fun reading it and seeing the pictures.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jana! He is a cutie and a wild one! Isn't it fun to watch them grow and develop their own unique personalities(and to be able to send them home to their parents!!)
ReplyDeleteAw, how cute! Both the poem and Zander. I hope you are putting these poems together into a little collection. They would make a great gift for family as a sort of scrapbook and poem book combined.
ReplyDeleteI am keeping track of these and will put them into something for the grandkids. It seems I am having better luck with these "ditties" than stories for them.
ReplyDeleteAdorable -- both your grandson and your poem. They are keepers and this will be a nice way for everyone to remember these precious years.
ReplyDeleteI've been making a scrapbook for each of the grandkids starting out with pictures of their parents as kids, their parents wedding, their birth, also including lots of pictutes of them at various ages, their siblings and relatives, stickers and pictures of things each of them likes. I've completed 5 of the 8 - they usually receive them around age 5 when they may appreciate them a bit more. Now I can add these sing-song rhymes with pictures to the "something from Grandma Linda" legacy. It's so fun!
ReplyDeleteThese are great poems. You should bind the collection and give them to the parents for Christmas. I'm sure the kids love them too, but as a parent they're pretty cool.
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